Vijayi Vishva Tirangaa Pyaara
Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamaara

Olympics(1936)

Berlin Olympics - 1936

From 1928 through 1936,
India was represented by British India's Star of India flag. August
15, 1936, when India met Germany in the Olympic hockey final, marked the
unofficial debut of the Indian tirangaa in any
sporting competition.

The Indian players assembled in the dressing
room prior to the match, and reverently saluted the tricolour of the
Indian National Congress, which their Asst. Manager had brought to Berlin.

It would be only the 1948 London Olympics when free India could
officially unfurl its national flag.